Ménage is ménage à trois, which is a French term that originally described a domestic arrangement in which three people having sexual relations occupy the same household. The phrase literally translates as "household of three". In contemporary usage, ménage ebooks has been extended to include ménage à trois/quatre and mean any living relationship between three or more people, whether or not sex is involved, but because it has also been extended to refer to the actual sexual act between three or more people, otherwise known as a threesome or foursome.